Sheila Crowell

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The National Institute of Social Sciences is delighted to announce Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and philosopher of mind at UC Berkeley, as one of the 2025 Honorees for its Gold Honor Medal for distinguished service to society and humanity.

To start, we're marching on 11/5 in DC to deliver thousands of petitions from concerned citizens demanding RFK Jr. is impeached and removed!

Add your name! www.standupforscience.net/rfk-impeachm...

March with us! act.standupforscience.net/events/march...

BREAKING: Federal court just GRANTED our court order to block Trump admin from shutting down SNAP. Order also issued in state AG case. Hope millions can breathe a sigh of relief. Incredible work to @democracyforward.org and our co-counsel.

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.

Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

"I think it’s a category error to equate faculty councils or faculty senates with shared governance"

"I don’t want to say too much more because we find these discussions are best had behind the scenes"

No, man, Republicans are in charge of the government.

Do you think Democrats are the ones who keep telling the House to stay on vacation week after week in order to prevent the release of the Epstein Files?

Because I'm pretty positive that's *you* who's been doing that.

The official home of the Python Programming Language

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
🧵

I don’t know that this just applies to ICE to be honest. The culture at my VA (in CALIFORNIA at that) has shifted so far in 10 months, I can’t imagine it ever bouncing back after years of this.

They’re breaking it…and that was the goal.

More Than Their Work - Offrange In calls to recognize immigrants as people, too often they’re reduced to what they produce and how they support our economy.

Love this from @jayasaxena.com on how we need to stop framing conversations about immigrants around their value under capitalism rather than their inherent rights and dignity.

Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, Is Resurgent

Measles is back

Whooping cough is back

Now, diphtheria is staging a return with large outbreaks now in Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Chad — countries with civil wars or large populations of refugees where vaccination coverage is low...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

Know Your Rights | What To Do When Encountering Questions from Law Enforcement | ACLU You could be questioned by a variety of law enforcement officers, including state or local police officers, Joint Terrorism Task Force members, or federal agents from the FBI, Department of Homeland S...

“I want a lawyer.”

These words are so important, friends.

www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

This is a recruitment advertisement for a focus group-based study on bisexual women’s body image. You must be 18 years old or older to take part, and you must identify as a bisexual woman. The qualtrics link to participate is: https://qualtricsxmxld4bc9v2.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1BafhqW6GMhsUVE

Please consider participating in or sharing the recruitment advertisement for our new study, which is focused on understanding body image in bisexual women. The link is in the alt text.

So that is why you don't prompt people once a day for an entire year... #OpenESM - data from openesmdata.org/datasets/001...

University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices

UC faculty and the @aaup.org demand the end of mandatory surveillance software use across the UC system. The future belongs to people, not to big brother!
www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump’s latest target? The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America’s last truly wild places. His administration just announced plans to open it up for oil and gas drilling, turning 1.56 million acres of pristine wilderness (home to polar bears, caribou, and migratory birds)

🚨 My university just announced it's closing its Women & Gender Studies and Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies departments, merging them into English. The official reason? "Low enrollment." But our meeting with the provost tells a very different story about what's really happening here. 🧵

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

wat

Donald Trump ends LGBTQ+ health programs under the cover of the shutdown - LGBTQ Nation Over the weekend thousands of HHS employees were dismissed, including the office responsible for key LGBTQ+ programs.

Donald Trump ends #LGBTQ+ health programs under the cover of the shutdown

Over the weekend thousands of HHS employees were dismissed, including the office responsible for key LGBTQ+ programs.

#USA #Trump #uspoli

www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/dona...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over